IP Library Granted Patent US 8,189,059
Granted Patent B2
US 8,189,059 · App. 10/758,178 · Granted May 29, 2012

Digital camera and digital camera system

Assignee: Nikon Corporation
View Patent ↗
Loading inventors, assignments & file history…
Monitor This Case
Get email alerts when status or documents change.
Order Certified Copies
Most orders are placed with the USPTO same day — all within 24 business hours.
Order via The Patent Place →
Pre-filled with this patent's details
Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,189,059
App. No.
10/758,178
Granted
May 29, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a collaborating work, it is to provide a digital camera in which camera information about each camera is displayed on a monitor of a master camera and a memory status of each memory card in use is also displayed and further, when monitoring a video from a slave camera, a size of a display screen can be manually set and in a digital camera system at collaborating work, a first digital camera is provided with camera information about each digital camera, a total memory capacity, a total sum of shot-taken frame numbers, a total remaining memory capacity or a display device indicating a total sum of remaining frame numbers. Camera information is information that is required to be set when instructing a shooting work or a storage work or to specify a second digital camera.

Claims (21)

1. A digital camera system comprising:

a first digital camera; and

a second digital camera;

the first digital camera comprising:

a first input/output device that sends/receives data to and from the second digital camera;

a first plurality of operating devices;

a first detector that detects an operation of any of the first plurality of operating devices; and

a second controller that instructs the first digital camera to execute an instruction about taking a photograph based upon an operation of any of the first plurality of operating devices; and

the second digital camera comprising:

a second input/output device that sends/receives data to and from the first digital camera;

a second plurality of operating devices;

a second detector that detects an operation of any of the second plurality of operating devices;

a judgment device that judges which detection result was first detected, a detection result of the second detector or a detection result of the first detector input via the second input/output device; and

a first controller that instructs the first digital camera to execute the instruction about taking a photograph based upon an operation of any of the second plurality of operating devices when the judgment device judges that the detection result of the second detector was detected prior to the detection result of the first detector;

wherein when the first digital camera detects an instruction about taking a photograph from the first controller while the first digital camera is executing the instruction about taking the photograph by the second controller, the first digital camera stores the instruction about taking the photograph from the first controller and only executes the instruction about taking the photograph from the first controller, which is stored in the first digital camera, after completion of all of the instruction about taking the photograph by the second controller; and

wherein the instruction about taking the photograph is at least one of an exposure condition to take the photograph, a light metering to take the photograph, White Balance (WB) condition to take the photograph, a shooting lens position to take the photograph, a shutter speed to take the photograph, an aperture value to take the photograph, chromaticness to take the photograph, a shooting sensitivity to take the photograph, an edge enhancement value to take the photograph, a compression ratio to take the photograph, a number of recording pixels to take the photograph and a time setting to take the photograph.

2. The digital camera system set forth in claim 1 , wherein when the judgment device judges that the detection result of the first detector was first detected prior to the detection result of the second detector, the first controller is prohibited from controlling the first digital camera.

3. The digital camera system set forth in claim 1 , wherein

the second controller is prohibited from controlling the first digital camera while the first digital camera is being controlled by the first controller.

4. The digital camera system set forth in claim 1 , wherein

the first controller is prohibited from controlling the first digital camera while the first digital camera is being controlled by the second controller.

Assignments (2)
CO. TO CO. ASSIGNMENT Recorded May 16, 2006
From: NIKON TECHNOLOGIES INC.
To: NIKON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 017626/0875 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 16, 2004
From: NOZAKI, HIROTAKE; KAWAHARA, TAKUMI; KOBAYASHI, TOSHIAKI; YOKONUMA, NORIKAZU; KAZAMI, KAZUYUKI; OHTA, TADASHI
To: NIKON CORPORATION; NIKON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 014915/0237 →
Priority Claims (10)
JP 2003-019709 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019710 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019711 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019712 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019713 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019769 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019770 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019771 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019772 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
JP 2003-019773 · Jan 29, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20040150724A1 · Aug 5, 2004